Getting older!!!!

JD Seller · Sep 17, 2016

A good friend and neighbor just came over for some help as he had wrapped barbed wire up in is JD Mo-Co. I am dead tired. I moved three semi loads of rock today with the skid steer. That real beat me up. LOL So rather than hurrying over myself I called my youngest son to go help. I did send the correct sockets along. Normally I would have been right on it but I just do not feel like I have the energy to be much help tonight.

I can't remember ever doing that before. This getting older is not much fun at times. LOL

The neighbor is fifteen years older than me.

Ron Muhlenkamp · Sep 17, 2016

But it does beat the alternative.

rrlund · Sep 17, 2016

You're lucky you could palm it off on somebody. I spent all afternoon working on a chopper box. I knew it needed a little work,but didn't know it needed that much. I was about all in but my shoe laces and they were dragging. I told the wife we needed to move the power corn rake from the outside to the inside of a crib tomorrow,a job that's easiest if I hang the chain fall up in the top of the crib.
She said "Can't we do it tonight instead?". What do you say? We got it in there,but I stripped to my underwear and sat in my recliner for an hour before I could even muster the strength to get in the shower.

JD Seller · Sep 17, 2016

Was it hot over your way today??? It was nice and cool here.

Frank 41 · Sep 17, 2016

60 was the last of the good days. At 70 when some one asks how I am, I just say that I am getting dumber everyday and mean it. It was compounding then but at hitting 75, the compounding exponential function becomes much higher. In 14, I broke my uper left humas at the begining of bean harvest when a ladder splipped out from under me a 10'. In 15, I had a mini stroke with ony 3rd nerve palsy, lost my CDL medical card and went to J50 license here in IL. In 16, wife is having medical problems. So I think from here on out, the voodoos are out to get me. I think I need to drink more and mellow out.

Donald Lehman · Sep 17, 2016

I knew it needed work, but not that much.

Every man who ever turned a furrow or pulled a teat can related to that, Randy. Lol!

Donald Lehman · Sep 17, 2016

Talked to a high school buddy yesterday. He was commenting on how once he sat down he can barely pry himself out of the chair and get moving again. He was also complaining about how stiff he was after sitting down for any length of time. I just smiled and nodded sagely. Lol!

Bill in IL · Sep 17, 2016

I just got done moving 5000 lb of rock through the old mixer pouring a small amount of concrete. I can really feel it tonight. I did about the same amount the other night. Heck I am not even 40 yet but close.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 17, 2016

Well, I'm feeling the most fit that I have felt in 3 years. Went to see doctor yesterday, (3rd 6 month checkup after cancer treatments) Everything is great in that reguard, and I can spend the day working in the woods without phisical pain or fatigue. I sure do sleep hard at night though. HeHe, but ready to get back at it the next day.
Loren

IlliniJohn · Sep 17, 2016

This getting Older is NOT for the Weak or the Meak!

RBnWA · Sep 17, 2016

Grandad always said it is he77 to get old.He wasn t lieing & i ain t old.only 57 . Richard

kruser · Sep 17, 2016

Never used to believe the Rumor about 60 being old and going downhill.
Starting to think there might be some wisdom to that crazy idea?

David G · Sep 17, 2016

I am getting the same way, neighbor has two grown boys in their 20s, I help them out with mechanic work, letting them do the heavy work more.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 18, 2016

ill second that!!!

HenryO · Sep 18, 2016

After reading the comments below I am amazed at how you younuns complain. At 85 I am worn out but the wife and I bushhhogged about 40 acres of weeds, some as high as 8 foot and had to clean the radiator every other round from the seeds and chaffe . Took us about 6 days but we gotrdun. Getting ready for PLOW DAY next saturday. I was great until I was 78 and had shingles and cancer radiation treatment in the same year. At 65 I built a 52 by 28 barn all by myself. NOW i dono.t have the strength to lift an 50 lb piece of equipment. Count yourselves blessed and do your best. Henry

farmerjohn · Sep 18, 2016

When I was about 20 my neighbor who was around 60 gave me a wooden 40 foot extension ladder, said he didn't want it anymore because it was too heavy. I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard, you would have thought I was given a bucket of cash. Now some 35 years later I realize what he meant....

Goose · Sep 18, 2016

Going down hill at 60? That's absurd.

Thomas Jefferson said, "A man is known for his actions, not his age". Ever since he told me that , I quit worrying about it.

Mark - IN. · Sep 18, 2016

Getting older? I have no idea what that's like and am not interested in finding out until after I'm dead and gone, which I have no plans of doing either.

Mark

rrlund · Sep 18, 2016

Wasn't bad.

rrlund · Sep 18, 2016

I was feeling great too Loren,until that whole thing happened with my legs last month. All the climbing up and down a ladder,crawling under that wagon over and over,twisting like a pretzel to do some welding under it,I wasn't walking real good by the end of the day.

NEKS · Sep 18, 2016

Glad I have a son I can call on when needed, Half a 5 gallon bucket of water feels as heavy as a full bucket did a few years back. Try to stay active, but still going down hill. Only one lady left in the neighborhood, when she moves off the farm the wife and I have been here the longest.

rrlund · Sep 18, 2016

This doggoned thing. It's a dump wagon with a hoist. It didn't have a roof on it when I bought it this spring. I put the roof off an old Knight front unloader on it last weekend and put a few bolts in it. I had to finish bolting that down. They'd used it to haul grain instead of silage. The front was a little too high so I had to cut that down. Some of the plywood was loose from the uprights here and there so I drilled all the way through and bolted that on good and solid. All of that stuff I was expecting,but they had only been using the little grain chute on the end gate.
The whole thing was bolted shut on both sides,there were two L brackets holding it to the floor in the middle,all that had to be unbolted. I got that done,tipped it up and the latches didn't let loose. They had rerouted the cables to hold it shut. I started making new cables and routing them right and saw that one hinge was broke. I had to unbolt that,jack the box up as high as I could on that side so I could get to everything to do a decent job of welding it,then line it all up again.
That miserable things had better be right now after all that work.

Don-Wi · Sep 18, 2016

I think it was last year while doing some bedding the steel across the front of the box under the apron chain got ripped up in one of our wagons. We ordered new, and forgot all about it after corn. Dad told me last week he found it up in the rafters and we should get that put in yet....

Donovan from Wisconsin

K Effective · Sep 18, 2016

I'm only 51, and have never worked as hard as either neighbor, just ask them!

This was the first year I ever hired some menial task performed other than hay making help. I just didn't have time or the energy to get the job done, and actually sat in the house one evening while the neighbor kid worked at it.

We are gearing up for a refueling outage at work, so there are several hundred contract workers on site. Each brings in their own strain of cold, flu, ebola, henta virus, leprocy, you name it. I started to feel a case of the Contractor Croup coming on Wednesday night already, but it hit hard yesterday. Not quite the flu, as I still had a great appetite, but fever, congestion, aches and a cough that wakes the whole house up.

Went out to feed the cows, and since we had gotten 0.3 inches of rain in the overnight, I figured to hit the rainy day list. First job was a new roll pin in the drive sprocket of the hay elevator in the peak of the barn. Despite only being high 70's, the humidity was definitely up here. I think five full trips up and down the loft onto the elevator and I had it done, about two hours. Soaked in sweat down to my pants. I showered and turned on the A/C in the house. Sat there not sleeping, coughing and not watching college football until 0400 this morning, alternating sweats and chills.

Now, gotta get after it today. And rrlund can tell you how well Sunday work usually turns out...

T in NE · Sep 18, 2016

My boss used to run 4 hours each way into South Dakota to make hay. A couple years ago he got his daughter (she turned 21 this spring) started mowing a pivot and headed home to take care of a problem on the trucks. He didn't get far when he got a phone call. The high tensile fence she was mowing along had a wire broken and the ends of the wire pulled into the field.

Did I mention he had the disk header on it?

Sucked up nearly a quarter mile of high tensile wire before the header stalled.

jim buford · Sep 18, 2016

At 78 I have slowed down too. Like to work in the morning and rest in the afternoon. Course been dealing with leukemia for 11 years and shingles a year ago and a little heart problem doesn't help. But I try to focus on the scripture that says the Lord is my strength and help in time of trouble. God is good!

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